TWO madly-in-love teenagers tied their wrists together with a scarf and jumped to their deaths on St Valentine's Day - because the girl had been forced to marry a stranger twice her age.

Against the wishes of her parents Mitu Molla, 16, had been the secret lover of 17-year-Soud Sheikh, for months.

But when the love affair was uncovered Mita's parents arranged for her to marry a man twice her age whom she had never met.

She and her lover Soud found life without each other so unbearable that they drew up a deathj pact and on St Valentine's Day the tragic pair were found at the base of a tall mobile phone tower in the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka.